Sunday, 21 August 2016

Take a crumbling London bookshop; add in an eclectic staff
including painfully shy Verity, tattooed and blue-haired Nina, and newly-appointed
romance book-loving owner Posy; then throw the self-styled “rudest man in
London” into the mix and you get this charming rom-com of a book.

There are
definite nods to Pride and Prejudice,
one scene that seems to have been borrowed straight from Bridget Jones’ Diary, and a smattering of intentionally terrible
Regency bodice ripping scenes conjured from Posy’s imagination.

Posy inherits Bookends bookshop from eccentric owner Lavinia and decides to rebrand as romantic
fiction specialist shop Happy Ever After, having to fend off the unwanted interference from
high-handed Sebastian, who owns the rest of the mews. The results are
predictable but no less enjoyable for it.